Technology keeps on progressing as the years go by. Back then we were still watching black and white films through Betamax and VHS tapes but now we can live stream our own videos using just our phone in all colors of the color spectrum – a smartphone that can do all sorts of things you don’t need individual gadgets to do the job anymore. And no other better example of seeing these advancements in action than seeing how computers have evolved through the years. Computers of yesteryears were bulky and used floppy disk drives you’ll never see used anymore in modern computers. Computer hardware is essentially the backbone of any computing device. What use is sophisticated software if there’s no sturdy and functional hard drive to house and protect it. Hard drives can have issues, however. But overall, they still somehow look the same and contain the same parts, albeit just smaller. Experts nowadays wish for more innovation in computer hardware because not much has changed over the decades.
Over the years, Moore’s Law influenced technological advancements around us, even the smartphones and other smart gadgets you are now holding. However, as we seem to have reached very advanced and sophisticated technology, making things even smaller does not guarantee that they will also be better and faster. Moore’s Law stated that the power of any device doubles about every two years but in a way, it has restricted innovation. But today, experts in the field realizes that for computing to progress, they will have to change the way things are done without sacrificing all the progress we have made so far.
(Via: http://www.computerworld.in/news/its-time-dump-moores-law-advance-computing) We have witnessed computers getting better, more powerful and faster every two years. But considering how small we have made these transistors powering most modern computers, experts are now looking into other ways to continue our progress in the field of computing. If we let things happen as it is now, experts predict the occurrence of the event known as “singularity,” when machines are now capable of near-human intelligence. While others are quite sure that such an event is looming on the horizon, skeptics are countering it saying that Moore’s Law is no longer the authority in the computing field we used to look up to. But all these things don’t really matter for the average Joe. What people notice is that computers now are getting better at parallelization (similar to how the brain works) through multi-core processors sold in the market today. Then, there’s also the future of quantum computing, which may be decades from now before the public can access but still a possibility that looms on the horizon. We can only wait and see what the future in computing holds for all of us. The Evolution Of Computing was initially published on The New Influencers Blog from https://www.newinfluencers.com/the-evolution-of-computing/
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